Floating ISBNs

[durham_rambler]

Take a look at the Nielsen BookScan UK top ten fiction titles.The 13-digit ISBNs are shown as floating point numbers, eg

Pos	ISBN	Title	Author	Publisher	Price
1	9.78185E+12	Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest,The	Larsson, Stieg	Quercus Publishing Plc	7.99

D'uh!

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I expect they've used a spreadsheet to automate the process...